How to make cutlass blade
Its often a good idea to load up a reference image of the item that your are trying to model into the Background of the 3D Editor window. Then in Wireframe view trace over the image with vertices.

Its worth spending a little time getting the image setup correctly: Size, Position, Rotation, and Scale.

One thing to remember when using Background images, they only show up in Orthographique view and in the Axis that you have selected in the Background Image panel.









Oooops, 15 should read Eddge Split modifier and not Edge Spit !